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A. G. Maisey · 10th December 2007, 07:02 AM

I reckon I'm with you on this one Pak Boedhi.

I only ever heard kelap lintah used by anybody for waved gonjos for years and years.

Then a few years back I started to see all these other names in print, but all the people I knew still called all the waved gonjos of whatever type, "kelap lintah".

I think that probably "kelap lintah" has become the generic---or maybe was always the generic, and those extremely knowledgeable experts---one of which I am not--- delight in using other names to distinguish one type of waved gonjo from another. Of course, this tends to become a little bit confusing when many of these experts are unable to agree on what is "correct", and what is not.

10th December 2007, 07:02 AM	#14
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,725	I reckon I'm with you on this one Pak Boedhi. I only ever heard kelap lintah used by anybody for waved gonjos for years and years. Then a few years back I started to see all these other names in print, but all the people I knew still called all the waved gonjos of whatever type, "kelap lintah". I think that probably "kelap lintah" has become the generic---or maybe was always the generic, and those extremely knowledgeable experts---one of which I am not--- delight in using other names to distinguish one type of waved gonjo from another. Of course, this tends to become a little bit confusing when many of these experts are unable to agree on what is "correct", and what is not.